It may be hard for him to re-establish trust. Maintaining xz for more than a decade then doing this would be quite a "long con" but if HN threads are any indication, many will still be suspicious.
His commits on these links look legit to me. It's a sad situation for him if he wasn't involved.
I worry about his home/personal system, this guy seems to have befriended Lasse in order to get the position, is it possible Lasse himself has been compromised?
I'd be nuking everything, possibly even disposing of hardware and setting up a new verifiable online identity on a clean system/hardware.
If he is innocent and a victim as much as everyone else in all this, I won't blame him for wanting blood.
Most of us are humans after all, and being social creatures we tend to take violations of trust quite deeply.
Truly seems that way currently. He said he'd really dig in starting next week and just checked his email on vacation and saw this whole mess.
It may be hard for him to re-establish trust. Maintaining xz for more than a decade then doing this would be quite a "long con" but if HN threads are any indication, many will still be suspicious.
His commits on these links look legit to me. It's a sad situation for him if he wasn't involved.
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I worry about his home/personal system, this guy seems to have befriended Lasse in order to get the position, is it possible Lasse himself has been compromised?
I'd be nuking everything, possibly even disposing of hardware and setting up a new verifiable online identity on a clean system/hardware.